Sports Around The World

All over the world sports are very popular events where people get together with their friends and family to go see a game and root for their team. Different countries are passionate about different sports. For example, here in the United States the most popular sport has to be football followed by basketball and baseball. In many countries in South America, like Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Peru the most popular sport is soccer. In Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela the most popular sport is baseball and in most European countries, like Spain, Italy, Germany and France soccer is the most popular sport. One sport the world has in common is soccer. Soccer is the most popular, watched and played sport in the world. Every four years people travel from all over the world to see the World Cup of Soccer. This event has the whole world watching. Every country is rooting for their team and watching all the games to see what country is going to be the champion of the world in Soccer. Every four years a country is selected to host this world event and people all over the world try to find hotels, resorts and friends’ houses they can stay at, to go to the World Cup. It is a huge event for the world, but also for the travel industry and the country that is hosting it. Everyone comes into that country to see the soccer games and the cities of the host country gets flooded with tourists everywhere.  Usually, every property in the area or near the area is completely full. It is an exciting time because there are many people on the streets celebrating their team wins, people dress up with their countries colors, families spend time together and share a passion for soccer and people get to experience and new country and culture when they go visit the hosting country. The World Cup is a great event to travel to and experience a new country and culture through a sport that everyone loves!